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VMIII - Watchpower - 30m Cat5 serial connection (Will it work?)


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Will this work to monitor real time values in Watchpower?

Or should I just use the USB mini port with USB extenders? I saw a post here saying the USB connection was not designed for continuous data transfer.

 

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I think your best bet is an RS-232 extender. I've only see those go to 20 m. But you might get away with ≈5 m either side of the RS-232 extender.

RS-232 over cat 5 cable is probably not going to work, at a guess.

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I run a cat5 of about 25 mtr to a keypad than from keypad have the serial to usb converter. It seems to be ok except that i think the data is about 3seconds behind the inverter keypad, but it does not bother me.

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